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They have been trying that one for two years. It has no currency. As for Hamas and Hezbollah, how many people in Britain have ever even heard of them? Hezbollah, moreover, is in the front line against IS. The Christians in the north of Lebanon pray for them openly as "the brothers in the South".

There has been the most desperate attempt by, bluntly, the people who lost the war in Northern Ireland, to make this Election about all of that. It has entirely failed to take off.

Those who are going on about Northern Ireland a generation later are those who just gave up and went home in the end, leaving Martin McGuinness to it. It turned out that even Ian Paisley preferred him to the Brits, once they got to know each other. No British Government ever really had any genuine desire for that war. No British Prime Minister has ever really felt any affinity with Northern Ireland.

Even to the point of telling rich and middle-class students don't have to pay tuition fees, as the 80% of adults who never got the chance to study at University will be forced to pick up the bill instead.

It is not teenagers who expect everything free. It is Baby Boomers. And they get it. In case you failed to notice, Theresa May tore up her manifesto's headline policy on social care yesterday. It had brought her to the brink of losing a General Election to Jeremy Corbyn on the votes, not of teenagers, few of whom can vote and very few of whom do so, but of the old, who can vote and who do vote.

As Peter Oborne writes, immense respect is due to the Tories for the fact that they are prepared to face up to our looming social care crisis, unlike the childish Corbynistas offering "free" University to rich and middle-class students paid for by people who went straight to work and never went to Uni.

It wouldn't be my choice of priority. Watch out for it from Theresa May, though, at least if she thinks that there might be votes in it. Yesterday, she tore up her headline policy on social care completely.